December 3, 2025

UNAHQ 4020 Nature Whisper [Autumn Call]

 UNAHQ 4020 ALBUM INFO




UNAHQ 4020 Nature Whisper [Autumn Call]

 

M-01 Autumn Call 15minuts

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 By Mick Sawaguchi

 

The perception of insect chirping on Japanese people and the right and left brains.

 

Since 1987, Professor Tadanobu Tsunoda of Tokyo Medical and Dental University has obtained a very interesting result of the difference in perception of insect chirping from the results of experiments on Japanese people and the right and left brains.

Japanese and Polynesians do not distinguish between vowels and consonants and process them in the left brain, which is the language brain. It is said that it has the ability to receive insect sounds that are close to vowels as language in the left brain.

 

According to Professor Tsunoda result the language brain perceives not only the sounds of insects, but also the sounds of animals, waves, wind, rain, and even the babbling of streams.

The physiological characteristics of the Japanese are that they perceive natural sounds in the left hemisphere of the linguistic brain. 

The Japanese view of nature has formed the idea that both humans and insects are “living beings” and have equal “sound” and “thoughts.”

 

During the Heian period, aristocrats enjoyed playing in the fields of Kyoto, catching Matsu Mushi and Suzumushi, placing them in baskets, and offering them to the Imperial Palace. 

 

typical Insects at autumn

Suzumushi

cricket

Grasshopper

Matsumushi

Locust

stag beetle

Kanatataki

okera

beetle

Handan

 

The song "Voice of an Insect”, which begins with "That MATSUMUSHI is singing", is a song of the Ministry of Education published in the 1912 collection of songs "Elementary School Songs" for the third grade.

 

In the lyrics, five insects, matsumushi (pine worm), suzumushi (bell worm), cricket, horse beetle, and kutsuwamushi, appear, and each of them plays a unique and joyful tone.

 

lyrics

 

That matusu-mushi is singing

Chinchiro, Chinchiro, Chinchirorin

That Suzumushi also began to sing

ring ring ring ring ring ring

Ringing through the long autumn nights

Ah, the sounds of insects are so interesting

 

Kirikiri Kirikiri Crickets

clatter clatter bug

Follow me later

Choon Choon Choon Choon Suicchon

Ringing through the long autumn nights

Ah, the sounds of insects are so interesting

 

Some Hai-Ku read by that


A beautiful guest in Handan is enough                  Kyogoku Kiyo

Think of Handan's cold legs                                  Kai Hasegawa

Handan and poverty have been handed down       Teiko Inabata

 

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